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Professionals from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other institutions recently spent a day discussing the growing field of cybersecurity to students at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora. "The world of cybersecurity is a very critical topic right now," said panelist Rafael Diaz, a cybersecurity official who has special clearance from Homeland Security. "It has a lot of information, a lot of players and no boundaries. If it can affect a local bank, it can affect the Department of Revenue."

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Vicente Diaz, who controlled home health care companies Marcialed Health Care and Sacred Health in Florida, was arrested on charges of suspected involvement in a possible $12.5M Medicare billing fraud. Diaz, along with former Sacred Heart employee Daniel Ocampo, faces charges of health care fraud, wire fraud and paying illegal kickbacks and bribes. The two men are accused of filing fraudulent Medicare claims for unnecessary and unprovided home care services from November 2011 until October 2013, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

Forty high-school students from a school district in Ohio recently got a tour and a preview of the district's aviation-technician program during a visit to the Toledo Public Schools Aviation Center. Students enrolled in the three-year program graduate with a high-school diploma, 50 credits toward a college degree and a Federal Aviation Administration mechanic certification.

To help raise awareness, Iowa is launching a public campaign called, "Greatness STEMs from Iowans." State lawmakers also have plans to create more partnerships between the private sector and public schools to help handle the rising demand for skilled workers in science, technology, engineering and math fields. "This STEM initiative is one of our administration's top priorities," Gov. Terry Branstad said.

Tech-savvy college graduates increasingly are launching their careers at their own startups, says Dane Stangler, director of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation, an entre­pre­neur­ship research nonprofit based in Kansas City, Mo. He says reasons for this trend include crowdfunding options, an increase in the number of entrepreneurship programs at colleges, and simply the appeal of starting one's own company.

An agreement between the Georgia Independent College Association and the state's technical college system will offer students graduating from the state's community and technical colleges -- with a grade-point average of 2.5 or higher -- guaranteed admission to 19 private colleges. The agreement also allows students to receive transfer credits for courses they pass with a C or higher. While some are critical of the deal, Stephen Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama, said it represents a "significant step forward for students in the Peach State."